Hey all.
Last week @marckohlbrugge launched https://highscore.money/ which went down really well 🔥
Following that, he sent out a tweet, asking if anyone knew of a good real time user counter to add to his site:
https://twitter.com/marckohlbrug...
_No-one did, so we made one._
Real Time Users is just that. We made it this weekend. I wrote a quick post introducing it, so feel free to look at that for more details.
https://blog.wearecontrast.com/m...
Feel free to ask any questions, we'll be about all day.
Kudos to @mijustin for inspiring this too. You can read more about that in the post above ☝️
Also, check out the leaderboard to see stats on current real time, highest real time, highest all time from all sites implementing RTU (pretty much just us for now though 😛)
This is honestly great. This can create a feeling that something is going on on mostly static sites. Which should naturally increase the user interaction.
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@talkb1nary Hey thanks Roman! It's definitely an interesting experiment. As I wrote in the blog post mentioned above, it can feel a bit vulnerable adding it to your site, like any element of transparency I guess. I'd love to see a site like @buffer adopt this as part of their transparency push. Either way, it was fun to make, and interesting to see the reception.
Sweet. One idea would be to only show it when the count goes above a certain number (for people who want the social proof, but can't handle the shame of a low count).
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@ramykhuffash Yep, good shout Ramy! I think there's definitely different ways this could go. Unsure if we'll develop it out more, depends on the demand really, but I agree the shame of a low count is a bit awkward.
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